What I need:
- Good trainer
- Safe facility with good BO
- Jumps
- Indoor arena (Let's not kid ourselves here: this is on the "need" list because this is Indiana. We've had snow on the ground for a month straight and it's only December.)
What I want:
- Other boarders that I get along with and have common ground with
- Good looking facility
- Not really a "kids" stable.
All I can find around here are marginally qualified people running bottom barrel 4H lesson stables, and facilities claiming to be "western and english" with a picture of a guy with a cigarette in his mouth holding a toddler on a pony that's not wearing any tack or halter. Yeah...
Why is this so hard? We're only an hour from Indianapolis. I did find a good looking lesson stable, but it's 45 minutes away - okay for a weekly lesson, not so good for boarding. I may have to resign myself to taking lessons somewhere other than my boarding barn, and finding someone's backyard to put my horse in.
No matter what, I do not want my horses on my own property. Not yet, anyway. I'm young and mobile, and one of the reason's I'm willing to shell out $400 a month for board is for the priviledge of, you know, going on weekend trips without mobilizing a small army to care for my pets. No one seems to understand that, as my in-laws keep telling me about farms for sale, and my husband talks about having the horses in the backyard. I need an arena, and jumps, and for those you need a lot of money, and a tractor, and jumps, and it's just not worth it to me.
Plus, I want friends. Horse friends. I miss college.
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